How to configure LaCie Biggest S2S for use in FCP

[Walter Biscardi]

I don’t think that drive supports RAID 5. And if it did, it would probably drop the speed too much.

We run ours in RAID 0 with a Firewire backup drive.

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[Broelando]

Mmhh your right, it only has RAID 0+1 (that is the Safe+Fast option probably) but you will loose 50% of your drive size… Backup to FW drives is probably the cheapest option, do you have any backup utilities you use for that or do you just manually copy everything?
BTW: Are there any other drives you recommend beside the LaCie Biggest S2S?

[David Roth weiss]

As Walter said, Raid 5 is not an option. That’s because Raid-5 is not software, its built-in to hardware controllers both as cards in CPU towers and cards in raid enclosures. Raids 1&0 available to you on LaCie drives are software raids. Raid-1, or mirroring provides backup, but at the expense of half the drive space and half the speed. Raid-5 protection only comes at a price, typically three times the price of hardware that only does Raid-0.

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Broelando] “Backup to FW drives is probably the cheapest option, do you have any backup utilities you use for that or do you just manually copy everything?”

We use a LaCie 2TB FW800 drive. I just do it manually.

[Broelando] “BTW: Are there any other drives you recommend beside the LaCie Biggest S2S?”

Yeah, MaxxDigital. We run two of their 8TB SAS/SATA arrays here. Website of the same name. We get almost 500MB/s in RAID 5 running off an ATTO R380 Controller.

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[Miodrag Ristic]

David,

Does it mean that he needs something like tis card that is now offered by
Apple as a configuration option on their website.
Secondly, can I use this card on my G5 with PCI express slot,
(it si however called Mac Pro RAID card):

The Mac Pro RAID card offers improved performance and data protection to your Mac Pro system

[Walter Biscardi]

[Miodrag Ristic] “Does it mean that he needs something like tis card that is now offered by
Apple as a configuration option on their website.”

I believe that is only for internal RAID setups as noted below.

.[Miodrag Ristic] “To enable your Mac Pro for hardware RAID, select the Mac Pro RAID card option and two or more hard drives in bays 1 through 4. Each RAID level has minimum requirements for the number of hard drives:”

They are talking about the internal Mac Pro Drive Bays 1-4. That is not for external arrays. For the LaCie you run the card that comes with the product.

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[Miodrag Ristic]

Thanks Walter, I get it now.

Mio